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"The Coin Divers"
As a young boy living off Wulff Rd. opposite Windsor Park, I had a good view of the inner city life of Nassau, some things good and bad, I was from a small family consisting of my father, mother and two big sisters, one that lived there with us both about 12 years older than I, the other sister lived in Andros and came to visit occassionally.

Life was exciting,and i had a lot of fun and made a lot of friends, I was kind of fresh, so I learned the difference between boys and girls at an early age when playing doll house and stuff like that, but it was a different kind of fun, than playing with the boys, flying kites on Windsor Park, spinning top, shooting marbles and playing ball etc.,to me boys had more fun, but I don't know.

My parents were not avid church goers, but they sent me and my sister to church every sunday at Zion Baptist Church, in my younger days I would catch a ride with my sister and her friends to church where she was very active and sang in the choir, her behavior was more constraint, I remember her reading her books all the time, Yvonne was a student of The Government High School in all it's glory days, when it was located on Thompson Blvd and Poincianna Drive.

As I got older, I would walk to church, all the way from Wulff Rd. to Shirley St. I had joined the "Life Boys Club" at church that were as junior members of The 14th Bahamas Boys Brigade, where there were many role models to look up to, such as Capt. Fernley Palmer, the Dorsette Brothers and Bruce Russell etc. This was a new experience for me, having the pride of wearing a uniform that made me feel like a military person, withe responsibility of keeping it clean, the smell of shoe polish that was applied to keep shoes shiny and the smell of brasso to polish the interlocking belt buckle and the 14 Bahamas brass numerals stuck on the cap had to be polished to it's finest lustre, these things made me glad to be a boy. instead of beads and ribbons and all that good stuff.

On the way to church, I always started out on the left side of East St. all the way to the top of the hill, where I would cross over on the other side when reaching Mortimer's Candy Kitchen, to buy red and white striped rock candy, and a snow ball before crossing back on the left side that would lead me to church, occasionally, I would end up on Woodes Rodgers Wharf to watch the bad boys dive over board to be the first to grab coins that were tossed over board into the sea by tourists who loved this competitive spectacle, I enjoyed it too, so much so, that after becoming an accomplished Designer, Photographer and Freelance Artist, I was able to photograph a scenery of these boys while coin diving one day before that activity has been phased out, and the beautiful aqua marine waters have been covered up, I was able to paint "The Coin Divers" that was preserved for other generations of Bahamians to see.

By Harry K. (like no other).

Elon Moxey- Oh My Andros

Gone to Cat Island Tony McKay's ode to good times on Cat Island. This song lightens up your mood and makes you want to enjoy your weekend

Happy Independence Day to all Bahamians today

I am one of the few persons it seems that have both Parents and 4 Grand Parents born in the Bahamas, so when I hear people talking **IT that there are no real Bahamians from the Bahamas, I don't know what they are talking about, I was born in Nassau, from parents both from South Andros, Maternal Grandfather McKinney from Bannerman town Eleuthera, Maternal Grandmother Smith from Long Island, Paternal Grandmother Wallace from Ragged Island, and Paternal Grandfather ole Zephaniah Rolle from Cat Island, just so you know.

Anyways, I hope all Bahamians and half breeds alike enjoy this day, and stop talking **IT, and go visit:

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"Haitian Sloops"

Docked off Arawak Cay, showed a cultural difference of builders that master the art of survival and resilliance.

This picture was painted using watercolors on Art Paper by the best man for the job. Yours truly Harry K. Rolle, regardless to what they say or do not say.

Just Do It

Good morning, one of the best things that you can be blest with are ideas, ones that would open the door to advancement in your life, because you can apply it in so many ways, I pray that your ideas flow like rain in an April shower today

Good morning to All

"Pink Oleander" (For your eyes only)

This toxic beauty, sometimes called the ninja plant, can do you in quicker than anything in the drug store if it's ingested, but like some other things also, they're very beautiful to look at.

I did this painting using dry pastels on Art paper, but it's messy to use and must be sprayed often to supply a fix to avoid smudging, but the effect is beautiful to behold.

Good morning to All, this porait of Paul Hanna was done by me using an ordinary ball pont pen, after meeting with Hugh Brennen to share an idea to create some kind of visual tribute to Paul Hanna, that was prompted by an advertisment that I saw on FB to have a meeting on Paradise Island's Yoga Retreat this past Saturday to honor Paul after his passing, so on Thursday I shared my idea with you and asked him to write a poem that would be appropriate for the occassion, which would be as a follow up of our collaboration of doing a picture and poem as a tribute to John "Chippy" Chipman. The timing was short, but I had a plan to make an arrangement to have everything ready and be able to get a review of the finished project design to Ms. Sonia Cox early Friday so that it could be seen by persons who would attend the meeting of his fans and family on Saturday, so I took the quickest way to do the original portrait by doing a pen sketch in scribble style that was ready on Friday, the beautiful poem by Hugh came in later, with plans to make a formal presentation of the original design at another appointed time.

As life goes on, we become more serious about what,'s going on around us

I love the line quality I achieve while drawing these mermaid sisters using my brush markers

This little girl and her sister wanted me to draw them in black m white, so I used my new brush markers to experiment